Western Digital Gets Sued for Shipping Slower, SMR-Based Red NAS Drives without Proper Disclosure

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It appears that Western Digital hasn’t been forgiven yet for its recent hard drive fiasco. Hattis Law has announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the company, which is under fire for shipping Red NAS drives that utilize the slower shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology.



“Customers are complaining that this switch has resulted in drastically slower write performance and storage failures, especially when used in RAID configurations such as in network attached storage (‘NAS’) devices,” wrote Hattis Law. “This secret downgrade, apparently done to cut costs, is particularly harmful and deceptive because Western Digital advertises and promises that WD Red hard drives are meant for NAS and RAID use.”



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